Faucet connecter for fire hose



Aug. 16, 1932.

FAucET coNNEcTER F'oR FIRE-HOSE File@ sept. 5, 1931 JIELL- :71523. `z5 'ea'.

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Patented Aug. 1,6, 1932 EEaNCIs I.. LESTER, E lnos ANGELES, CALIFORNIA EaUCE'r CONNECTER Eon FIRE nosE application mea. september a, 1931. serial No. Senasa.

This invention relates to coupling devices for connecting fire and other hose to faucets. An object of the invention is to provide a connecter of the character described which s may be quickly and easily applied to faucets and like outlets having smooth or screw threaded spouts, to provide for and maintain in a particularly eiIicacious manner a tight and reliable connection 'of a hose with such l0 faucets.

Another object of this invention is to provide a connecter which as a single, 'simply l constructed, compact and comparatively inexpensive unit may be easily and quickly operated to connect a hose with any of the various types of faucets and outlets usually found in homes, dwellings and office buildings and willmaintain a secure connection regardless of the water pressure and other 2 factors tending to break the connection whereby to facilitate and enhance home and,- emergency fire prevention and fire extinguishing operation in a particularly advantageous manner.

A further object of this invention is to provide a connecter ofthe character described, having a novel arrangement and combination of screw threaded coupling members and a rubber coupling gasket, the 3 latter being adapted to hold the connecter in place on smooth faucets of various sizes by friction, whereas the screw threaded vmembers are selectively operable .to make connecl 85 tion with threaded faucets of many different sizes under varying space conditions adjacent to the faucets and in such manner as to save time.

Another object is to provide a connecter having a simple, reliable and quick acting detachable means for positively locking the connecter to the faucet.

With the foregoing objects in view, together with such other objects and advantages as may subsequently appear, .the invention resides in the parts and in the combination, construction and arrangements of parts hereinafter described andiclaimed and illustrated by way of examplefin the accompany- 5 ing drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the connecter of this invention; Figure 2 is a side elevation partly in section, showing the connecter with one of the threaded coupling members removed and the other coupling as Whenon a threaded faucet; Figure 3 is a top plan view of the rubber gasket; l

Figure 4 is a side elevation partly in section, showing the connecter as when on a smooth faucet; A

Figure 5 isl a sectional View taken on the plane of line 5-5 of Figure 4.

The present embodiment of the connecter of this invention, as shown in the accompany- 35 ing drawing, is seen to generally comprise a spherical shell like body 6, an 'outlet nipple 7 for a hose, not shown, a rubber coupling gasket 8 in lsaid body, a screw threaded coupling member 9 holding said gasket in -70 place and constituting with the latter a means for selectively connecting the body 6 to aV .smooth or a screw threaded faucet, a detachable screw threaded coupling member 10 for adapting the connecter to Ithreaded faug5 cets of different diameters, and a flexible tie .means 11 for anchoring the connecter to the faucet. l

The inner or upper open end of the body is externally threaded to receive the cougo pling 9 which is in the form of a flan ed cap having a central screwthreaded opening 12 registering with the interior of the'body and adapted to accommodate a faucet 12, as

shown in Figure 2. On opposed surfaces of g5' the coupling 9 and the upper open end ofthe body are annular flanges 13 and 14 which clamp between them an annular flange l5 formed upon the upper margin of the rubber gasket 8, the flange -15 having annular deprels- 90 sions or recesses 16 in opposed sides thereof to receive said flanges 13 and 14 in such manner that the gasket will be efectivelyinter-locked with the member 9 and body 6 when the member 9 is screwed tight on said body.

The gasket 8,is cuplike in shape in that it has a cylindrical wall 17 fitting snugly within the o en endof the body 6 and a relatively thick ottom ortion 18 extending across said end. In this ottom portion is an opening 19 100 of smaller diameter than the diameter of the l has a curved wallorvflange portion 20 overhanging the bottom portion and disposed to present a large central opening 21 therein, at a point of registry with the opening 12 in the coupling member 9.

The detachable coupling member is internally threaded as at 22 and 23 at both ends and provided with a web portion or cross plate 24 between said ends, then being a central screw threaded opening 25 in said portion 24. The threaded end 22 is adapted to be screwed onto the threaded upper end of the member 9 so that the opening 25 will register with the opening 12, it being noted that these openings are of the same diameter and have matching or continuous screw threads when brought together as aforesaid.

The threaded end 23 of the member 9 is adapted to accommodate the screw threaded spout or outlet, not shown, of a larger faucet or water outlet than` may be accommodated by the openings 25 and 12. Between the members 9 and 10 is a washer 28 which is carried by the member 10. A similar washer 29 is carried within the threaded end 23 for engagement with the aforesaid larger sized faucets or outlets. v

The tie means 11-may comprise a link chain 30 secured at one end by a fastening 31 to one side of the body 6 andrhaving its other end adapted to be secured on a hook.

32 likewise fixed on said body. With the connecter arranged as shown in Figure 1 it is clear that it may be'fitted on smooth spout faucets by inserting the spout through the openings 25 and 12 in the couplings 9 and 10 and then through the opening 19 in the `rubber gasket 8. If, however, the space accommodations about the faucet and spout or the lengthof the spout will not permit of the insertion thereof through the gasket opening 19, the member 10 is unscrewed and removed and the spout B of the faucet C may be inserted through the coupling opening 12 and then through the opening 19 ofthe gasket, as particularly shown in Figure 4. The chain 30 may be looped around the faucet then secured on the hook 32, as shown in Figure 4, to tie the connecter in place. The gasket 8, it will be noted, is of such shape and arrangement that 'it will securely grip the faucet and maintain the connecter in a particularly reliable manner. The bottom wall of the gasket tapers or yinclines towards the opening 19 whereby to provide-for guiding the faucet and to facilitate -the insertion of the faucet through said opening.

In case the threaded spout faucet 12, shown in figure 2,. or one like, the spout may be' inserted through the `coupling 10 and screwed into the connecter is to be attached to.

the threaded opening 25 thereof or the coupling 10 may be removed and the coupling 9 screwed onto the spout, as shown in Figure 1.

all times, whereby to facilitate home and emergency fire extinguishing operations in a lparticularly eflicacious manner as well as to permit of an advantageous connection of hose, for variousother purposes, to faucets which are ordinarily not adapted for hose connections therewith. i

1. Ima connecter a faucet,\\a hollow bodymember having an inlet opening and an outlet opening which latter is adapted for connection with a hose, a rubber' gasket extending over the intake opening and having a central opening therein adapted to receive the spout of a faucet, and a coupling member on'said body and having a screw threaded opening therein arranged for attaching a hose to esv in registration with the opening of said gasket and adapted to receive the threaded spout of a faucet.

2. In a connecter for attaching a hose to a faucet, a hollow body member havin an inlet opening and anoutlet opening w ich latter isl adapted for connectionwith a hose, a rubber gasket extending over the intake opening and having a central opening therein adapted to receive the spout of 'a faucet, a

coupling member on said body and having a screw threaded opening therein arranged .in registration with the opening of said' gasfket and adapted to receive the threadedl spout of a. faucet, and 'another coupling member mounted on the first named coupling 3. In a connecter for-attaching a hose to a faucet, alhollow body vmember having an inlet opening' and an outlet opening which latter is adapted for connection with a hose, a rubber gasket extending over the intake 'opening and having a central openingtherein adapted to receive the spout of a faucet, a

coupling member on said body and having a screw threaded opening therein arranged in registration with the opening of said gasket andadapted to receivev the threaded spout of a faucet, and another coupling member removably mounted on the first named coupling member.

v 4. In a connecter for attaching a. hose to a faucet, a hollow body member having an inlet opening and an outlet opening which latter is adapted for connection with a hose, a rubber gasket extending over the intake opening and having a central opening therein adapted to receive the spout of a faucet, a coupling member on saidbody and having a screw threaded opening therein arranged in registration with the opening of said gasket and adapted to receive the threaded spout of a faucet, another coupling member removably mounted on the first named coupling member, and a plate extending across the bore of said second coupling member and having a screw threaded openin therein registering with the threaded opening of the rst named coupling member.

5. In a connecter for attaching a hose to a y faucet, a hollow body member having an inlet opening and an outlet opening which latter is adapted for connection with a hose, a rubber gasket extending over the intake openingl and having a central opening therein adapted to receive the spout of a faucet, a coupling member on said body and having a screw threaded opening therein arranged in registration with the'opening of said gasket and adapted to receive the threaded spout of a faucet, another coupling member removably mounted on the first named coupling member, anda plate extending across the bore of said second coupling member and having a screw threaded opening therein registering with the threaded open-ing of the first named coupling member and being equal in diameter p thereto.

6. In a connecter for attaching a hose to a faucet, a hollow body member having an inlet opening and an outlet opening which latsaid threaded bore portions being of thesame diameter as and disposed in registration with the threaded openingof the first' named coupling member.

8. In a connecter for coupling a hose to a faucet, a body member having a bore therethrough, means at one end of the body. member for attaching a hose to the body `a rubber gasket at the other end of said bo f having an opening therein adapted toy receive the spout of .a faucet, a member screwed onto said body member, a flange on said gasket having depressions'in opposite sides thereof,

spout of a faucet, a. member screwed onto said body member, a flange on said gasket having depressions in opposite sides thereof', and

opposed fianges on said body member and the screwed on member engaging in said depressions, said screw on member having a screw threaded opening therein registermg with Vand being of greater diameter than the opening in said gasket, and; adapted to receive the threaded spout of a faucet or to have a smoothspout inserted therethroughinto the opening of said asket. y.

RANCIS L. LESTER.

ter is adapted for connection with a hose, a

rubber gasket extending over the intake opening and having a central opening therein adapted to receive the spout of a faucet, a coupling member on said body and having a screw threaded opening therein arranged in registration with the opening of said gasket and adapted to receive the threaded spout of a faucet, and anothercoupling member removably telescoped upon the irst coupling y member and having screw threaded bore portions therein of differing diameters.

7. In a connecter for attaching a a faucet, a hollow body member havin an inlet opening and an outlet opening w ich latter is adapted for connection with a hose,

a rubber gasket extending over 'the intake opening and having a central opening therein adapted to receive the spout of a faucet, a

A coupling member on said body and having a screwthreaded opening therein arranged in registration with the opening of said gasket and adapted to receive the threaded spout of a faucet, and another coupling member re- 'l movably telescoped upon the first coupling member and having screw threaded bore portions therein of differing diameters, one of hose to I 

